Garga Samhita (English)

by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words

The Garga-samhita Verse 5.24.30, English translation, including word-by-word: This text represents a Vaishnava scripture which narrates the life Krishna, It was composed in seventeen cantos by Garga Muni: an ancient sage and priest of the Yadu dynasty having. This is verse 5 of Chapter 24 (The Killing of the Kola Demon) of Canto 5 (mathura-khanda).

Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:

चकार मायां मायावी
दैतेयीम् अति-भीषणाम्
प्रलय-प्रभवैर् मेघैर्
महा-वात-प्रणोदितैः अन्धकारं प्रकुर्वद्भिर् अभूद् आच्छादितं नभः

cakāra māyāṃ māyāvī
daiteyīm ati-bhīṣaṇām
pralaya-prabhavair meghair
mahā-vāta-praṇoditaiḥ andhakāraṃ prakurvadbhir abhūd ācchāditaṃ nabhaḥ

cakāradid; māyām—magic; māyāvīa magician; daiteyīm—demonic; ati-bhīṣaṇām—very fearful; pralaya-prabhavaiḥ—with the power of destruction; meghaiḥ—with clouds; mahā-vāta-praṇoditaiḥ—send by great winds; andhakāram—blinding darkness; prakurvadbhiḥ—making; abhūt—did; ācchāditam—covered; nabhaḥ—the sky.

English translation of verse 5.24.30:

Kola, a great magician, made very terrifying and demonic illusions. Bringing devastating clouds pushed by hurricane winds, he covered the sky with a blinding darkness.

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